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merry christmas to all

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me scrolling dashboard at 12:14 am: boring, stupid post, wrong, dont care, i’d die for this pic of keanu reeves

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Is the Danube Valley Civilization script the oldest writing in the world?

One of the more intriguing and hotly debated aspects of the Danube Valley civilisation is their supposed written language.  While some archaeologists have maintained that the ‘writing’ is actually just a series of geometric figures and symbols, others have maintained that it has the features of a true writing system.  If this theory is correct, it would make the script the oldest written language ever found

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Please do not attempt to make that last recipe, I already deleted it but if you have it saved do not attempt to make it. I have had diarrhea for the past 6 hours. 

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We lost this kid to the void.

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Josef Stoitzner (Austrian, 1884 - 1951)

Sonnenblumen (Sunflowers)

90 x 75 cm, Oil on canvas 

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In A World Where Everyone Watch Some Videos And Look At Some Photon Graph For Their Entortainment… It Takes A Real Hero – And A Winner – To Say Fuck That… I Am Playing With SAND Tonight…

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Walther Rothwell :: Playing on the boats at Sadarghat Port, Dhaka, Bangladesh [src: Instagram walther_rothwell]

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Posthumous portrait of Lucius Verus. From Villa of Lucilla in Aqua Traversa. C. 180-183 AD. Marble.  Musée du Louvre, Paris. Inv.  MR 550/ Ma 1170

myglyptothek: Faces of ancient Rome

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“I never crawled out of a cave that fast!”

Our colleague Sophie Verheyden is a fanatic speleologist. Quite an advantage when you are a geologist studying speleothems, like stalagmites and stalactites. One of her major discoveries was last year, when she could date stalagmite constructions (containing traces of fire) far into the cave of Bruniquel (Southwestern France) as being 176,500 years old. That indicated that early Neanderthals, well before Homo sapiens, knew how to use fire to circulate in enclosed spaces far from daylight. Just watch this cool documentary.

First footprints  

“Speleology is so fascinating”, Sophie says. She remembers exploring a cave in Italy. “We had to dive through a siphon, a section that is flooded to the ceiling, and climb a 50 meter high waterfall, before we could explore a dozen side galleries. I was walking through the very fine, untouched sand… Looking back, I saw my own footprints, and realized I was the first EVER in that place. You feel mighty and humble at the same time. In one of the other galleries, closer to the river, we discovered a bear ‘nest’, not far from the skulls and bones that had already been found in the main gallery. So, there must have been an entrance nearby, but until now we haven’t found it.”

Crawl!

Speleology is not without danger. “In Mexico I was measuring a cave with an underground river. After a rainstorm the water had risen 50 meters: the calm lake on the cave bottom had turned into a wild underground river. After a week, we could re-enter the cave, but we were still wary of the roaring waters. We constantly listened to the sound of the river. Suddenly, the noise was getting  louder, the water was rising! I never crawled out of a cave that fast!”

(Pictures: First two by Saskia Vanderstichelen/VUB in the Grottes de Han, Belgium. The third by Michel Soulier/SSAC during the exploration of the Bruniquel cave, France)

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americans are u aware that ur using the word wrong

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